Proverbial Wisdom
Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.
Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.
337.
Fashion too often makes a monstrous noise,
Bids us, a fickle jade, like fools adore
The poorest trash, the meanest toys.
Odes to the Royal Academicians, XI
338. The bitter goes before the sweet. Yea, and for as much as it doth, it makes the sweet the sweeter.
Pilgrim’s Progress (Timorous), Pt II
339. Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
The Traveller, line 386
340.
There smiles no Paradise on earth so fair
But guilt will raise avenging phantoms there.
The Abencerrage, Can. 1
341.
Help refused
Is hindrance sought and found.
Ferishtah’s Fancies, Two Camels
342. Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
On the French Revolution